Pieco

07/01/2014

I'm really pleased how this design came out, although I can't say much about it - this was for a consulting engagement. Might be the smallest board I've done - about 20x30mm. The latest DipTrace has nice rendering capability.

06/04/2012

We're busy working on our next big thing, and we're playing with some chips. We love breadboard adapters, but we couldn't find any for these formats, so we've made our own. And we're releasing the files so that you can, too.

10/11/2011

The nice thing about working with electronics is that many vendors are very happy to send you a fee sample of their stuff. So we get to put various components through their paces.

The problem is that it can take a lot of effort to do that. Especially if the boss forgets to order a breadboard adapter for the sample chip. Then the boss has to wire it up by hand. And that just sucks, but in a fun way.

10/07/2011

We've finished the design of what will hopefully be our last prototype for our upcoming Kindle light. Since the previous prototype got branded after an apocalyptic movie series, we figured that we'd keep things in the same vein. Since it's a bit more refined, we've moved up bad-outcome-for-society food chain to something dystopian.

At any rate, we're thrilled to present our design called "Logan's Run", or Logan for short.

09/23/2011

"Mad Max" showed us that the design needs some refinement. But since we received some prototype boards for this design, we decided to do a quick follow up to Max. We're calling it "Thunderdome".

We did our first attempt at homebrew surface mount, and it went quite well. But since we now know that the Max series is a dead evolutionary branch, we just glued the new circuit board on the outside and moved on. But we also learned a few more things in the process.